Svitman, Baruch

Son of-Batsheva and Mordecai was born in Kiev, Russia on September 23, 1911, and was educated in a Zionist atmosphere, where he studied Bible, Hebrew and general studies, and from childhood he aspired to Eretz Israel. He was a member of the Russian Hashomer Hatzair organization in 1922-1925. He immigrated to Israel on the “Chicherin”. When he came to Israel he worked in a training program at Ayelet Hashahar and at son of Shemen School; From there he moved to the Kinneret group and tried to establish an independent group in Bnei Brak. While in son of Shemen, he joined the first group of Hanoar Haoved. He later moved to Nu’man, where he was devoted to economic and defense matters. Was a member of the Haganah. At the outbreak of the bloody riots of 1936-1939 he was a guard at Hanita. Baruch was tall, sunny and windy, quick and responsive, independent and very original, a man of earth who was aware of political questions and who advocated the superiority of the village over the city. In all his ways and actions he would have fulfilled the basic values ​​of the labor movement, and he was able to analyze and understand the basic principles of the labor movement, to combine small opposites into a conceptual aspect, He was a friend and a good friend, a poet of literature, and in his impressions of Hanita’s early days he wrote: “… not man’s dust even when the death ball shimmers … Zacko “Baruch was hit by a stray bullet and fell during a guard duty in Naan on the 28th of Adar 5708 (March 9, 1948) and was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Naan, followed by a wife, daughter and son. He published a pamphlet in his memory